Almost half of Canton has been evacuated. Thousands of people have fled to villages outside the city, while others have gone to Hong Kong. Those who have made Hong Kong their refuge are mostly ...
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Article : 149 wordsPortion of the road which the City Council is constructing round the Melbourne Cricket-ground from Punt road to Wellington parade south is blocked in the ...
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Article : 158 wordsThe Air Ministry has decided to order 400 war planes from, the United States—200 general reconnaissance planes and 200 ...
Article : 519 wordsTwo additional suspects in the Cash kidnapping case are being questioned as Federal Investigation Officers are continuing their ...
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Article : 720 wordsDetectives attached to the Kew division of the Criminal Investigation Branch arrested a man in the street at Kew yesterday afternoon shortly after a robbery at ...
Article : 76 wordsFollowing are the results of play this week in the current championships and pennant tourneys of the victorian Bridge Union:—Open—Dr. J. L. Thwa[?] leading Miss I. O. Krakowski by 1,010 ...
Article : 279 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—An intensive Propaganda campaign will bo conducted through the northern coalfields in the next two months to obtain "complete ...
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Article : 131 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Seven firms in Lithgow, doing business with warehouses in Sydney, have received goods which they have not ordered. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Australian Minister for Commerce (Sir Earle Page), speaking as guest of honour at a dinner of the Royal Institute of Health and Hygiene, said that the ...
Article : 162 wordsHearing of the Lord Nuffield kidnapping charge has been adjourned until June 13, ball having been refused the defendant, John Bruce Thornton. ...
Article : 151 wordsIn the by-election for the Stafford constituency caused by the elevation to the peerage of the former Colonial Secretary (Mr. Ormsby-Gore) ...
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Article : 69 wordsMr. Alfred Jackaman, aged 34 years, a well-known British airman and civil aviation representative in East Africa, has become engaged to Miss Cherry Davies, ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Friday. — Earl Baldwin, as Chancellor of Cambridge University, presided at a congregation to-day at which seven honorary degrees were conferred. ...
Article : 111 wordsTwo junior members of the staff were entrusted with the principal speeches when officers of the central administration of the Postmaster-General's Department ...
Article : 175 wordsThe band leader and crooner Arthur Jarrett has been granted a divorce from the Olympic swimming champion. Eleanor Holm Jarrett. ...
Article : 63 wordsEsthonian frontier guards fired at a foreign bomber from Russia which was flying over the town of Narva. The plane was not hit, and returned to ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 11 Jun 1938, Page 9
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